The difference between intensive care at home and intensive care! Live stream!

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Just before we dive right into the topic, just a couple of notes about who am I and why am I qualified to talk about this topic? So, I am a critical care nurse with nearly 25 years, intensive care and intensive care at home experience. And after having worked in this environment for decades and after having worked with thousands of families in intensive care, and also with dozens of families in intensive care at home, I feel somewhat qualified talking about the topic, talking about the discharge process from intensive care to Intensive Care at Home. Talking about the obstacles around it, talking about perceptions in ICU, talking about perceptions in the community, but more importantly, talking about the realities in intensive care, and also talking about the realities in Intensive Care at Home.

So let’s dive right into it, what’s the difference between Intensive Care at Home and intensive care? Intensive Care at Home in English-speaking countries is a reasonably new concept. We’ve launched the concept here in Australia successfully in 2013. So we’ve been doing it for over eight years now. Prior to that, the concept of Intensive Care at Home has been established in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. So mainly German-speaking countries in the late 1990s, early 2000s and I was part of setting it up in Germany in the early 2000 as part of a company that was pioneering this concept very successfully in Germany. And then I went off travelling as part of my critical care nursing career. Worked in the UK and Australia in intensive care.

And obviously, I was keeping an eye on what was happening in Germany in particular and Intensive Care at Home just simply exploded. And more and more patients were going home from intensive care on a ventilator with a tracheostomy, otherwise, medically complex patients in need of an intensive care nurse, went home as well. And it was a winning formula for hospitals, for health insurances, for families, and for patients of course. It creates a win-win situation.

So I then, after my travels, decided to set up a similar service here in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. Again, it was similar to my experience in Germany 20 years ago. It was very difficult. People thought this was a crazy concept. People thought this would never work. I heard people saying things like, “Oh, we don’t do Intensive Care at Home here in Australia.” Well, we are doing it now. So, don’t let anybody stop you from believing in your dreams, goals, and vision.

And obviously, a lot of it was born from my end out of frustration, really because I knew what we were doing in Germany. And I could see all these intensive care patients while I was working in ICU here that we were looking after at home and I knew that the same would be possible here. And people in ICU were mainly saying, “Oh, well. We barely do hospital in the home. That means we can’t do Intensive Care at Home.” Again, nothing could be further from the truth. We have now provided hundreds of thousands of hours of Intensive Care at Home successfully, mainly in Melbourne and in Sydney. And we continue to expand the concept and continue to expand our team, our client base. And again, we are providing win-win situations for everyone.

We are providing a holistic service for patients and families. They don’t want to be in ICU. Ask them, ask the patients, ask the families, do they want to be in ICU? The answer is no. Do they want to be at home? The answer is yes. But we are also cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by 50%. And we’re freeing up an intensive care bed that is in high need for families in intensive care.

Now I know we also have some viewers from the UK potentially Ireland, but also from the US and Canada. And I also want to quickly talk about the US and Canada specifically. We have a lot of inquiries from the US and from Canada and at this particular point in time, we are not in the US yet.

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